Books as old as 500 years, certificates about ownership from medieval times and other artefacts from former mining sites of the central Ore Mountains were among the treasures visited by the Archiv-Net project team on 17 September 2019 in Annaberg-Buchholz. During a site visit the project partners and additional stakeholders from Saxony and the... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Institutional capacities
The "Routes of the Reformation" have received the certification as European Cultural Route from the Council of Europe. The development of a transnational concept to promote Central European heritage linked to the Reformation and the joint elaboration of an application to the Council of Europe have been activities of the ECRR project that was... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Tourism
Partners and stakeholder of ARCHIV-NET met on April 2, 2019, in Freiberg to visit the local City and Mining Museum and the Saxon Mining Archive. Participants learned there which archeoligical findings are featuring in the collections and research opportunities. The workshop was furthermore used to discuss the cross-border research of medieval... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Institutional capacities
Stakeholders of archeology, agriculture and forestry discussed during the transnational workshop the threats to archeological heritage posed by land use through agriculture and forestry. Representatives of the State Office for Archeology of Saxony presented examples where heritage protection authorities worked together with farmers to adjust and... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Urban and rural development
More than 50 representatives of associations and museums of the Ore Mountains area exchanged last Saturday about approaches and strategies to communicate the ideas of the world heritage programme of UNESCO. The event was arranged as measure of the “Unser Welterbe” (Our world heritage) project which is supported in its implementation by... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Tourism
The first event of the Czech-German project ARCHIV-NET took place on 6 November 2018 in Dresden. Following a work meeting between the two project partners a visit of the Archeological Archive of Saxony took place where participants learned about the collection and research possibilities. Nine more such site visits are planned in archives of the... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
The first team meeting of the project 'Science as Adventure' took place on 12/09/2018 in the Lusatian Museum in Zgorzelec. All three partners of the project, the Museum of West Lusatia Kamenz, the Ceramics Museum Bolesławiec and the Lusatian Museum in Zgorzelec participated. The main purpose of the meeting was signing of the partnership... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Education
The Monitoring Committee of the Interreg programme between Saxony and the Czech Republic 2014-2020 approved on 5 September 2018 two further cross-border projects for funding, including the project "Archiv-Net" which core-consult elaborated. The project aims to network archives and museums where researchers can find data about medieval activities... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
At the annual conference of the cross-border Interreg programme between Saxony and the Czech Republic on September 5, 2018, in Vejprty and Bärenstein, several speakers acknowledged the results of ArchaeoMontan. The project raised knowledge and awareness of the Ore Mountains' cultural heritage and established the first two information points for... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
Many guests attended the opening of the MiBERZ, the Museum for Medieval Mining in the Ore Mountains, in Dippoldiswalde on 23 August 2018. The museum's exhibition presents findings of two ArchaeoMontan projects that were discovered by an interdisciplinary team of Saxon and Czech scientists (more on the museum's website). At the same time... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage